James Bond
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Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton): ‘Just a moment, Goldfinger, you’re not through yet.’ Bond glanced up at the girl. She was looking at him strangely. There was misery and fear but…
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From Russia with Love (1963, Dir. Terence Young): Bond smiled wryly at his reflection in the Perspex as the plane swung out of the mountains and over the grosgrained terrazza…
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It’s no secret that this writer is a James Bond aficionado (for a gushing example, see here). In the run-up to the 24th film in the EON-produced Bond series, SPECTRE,…
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Skyfall (2012, Dir. Sam Mendes): “Don’t cock it up.” These are the words spoken by a bureaucratic apparatchik to James Bond in Skyfall, and they’re the words on our minds…
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Quantum of Solace (2008, Dir. Marc Forster): M: Bond, we need you back. Bond: I never left. A car chase. Fractured bursts of machine guns. Head-on collisions barely averted. A…
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, Dir. Lewis Gilbert): When you’re going downhill on skis at forty miles an hour and someone’s trying to put a bullet in your back,…
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Casino Royale (2006, Dir. Martin Campbell): M: While you were away, the world changed. James Bond: Not for me. – Die Another Day (2002) By some estimates, James Bond has…
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We’re dated and categorized by everything — driver’s licenses, birth certificates, college dates of graduation, mortgages, kids — but nothing seems to pigeonhole us, or equate age, quite as much…